Dilemma Resolution Quotes

It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose are sometimes-often-neck and neck.

When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]

Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.

Throughout history, one of the biggest problems is that the correct course of action is not always obvious, and the obvious course of action is not always correct.

Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.

There are two ways, one is right; the other is wrong. If your work is only about right, then it is wrong.

It's much easier to point out the problem than it is to say just how it should be solved.

In this dilemma they evolved the theory of natural rights. If 'natural rights' means anything it means that the individual rights are to be determined by the conduct of Nature. But Nature knows nothing about rights in the sense of human conception.

Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.

For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear; she should mercifully choose between the two.

Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.

The two tendencies are antithetical in significant respects. These are distinctions that should be kept in mind, however one feels that the problems and dilemmas that constantly arise should be resolved.

I find that the interesting challenges, because there's obvious things where, you know, don't be unethical, don't be evil, you know, don't break the law, don't do immoral things, those are all straightforward and don't create ethical dilemmas. The thing that's interesting is when you actually have multiple interests at stake and you have to kind of navigate your way through it.

~I used to think, What if there's an interesting movie and it conflicts with the boys going to a new school for the first time?... Well, I didn't anticipate that was going to be about a two-second dilemma. I didn't know the choices would be so easy to make.~

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

For me, in Buddhism there is a plethora of specific teachings that one can seek out and find for the individual dilemmas you may have.